Foundation Blog

Welcome to the blog for our foundation classes. The year group blogs are a great communication tool. Teachers will be posting news, photographs, details of homework, examples of work, and anything they wish to share with their pupils and parents. Please speak to your class teacher if you have any question, feedback or concerns.

Mrs Barwin

Blue Class Teacher

Miss Lewis

Red Class Teacher

Mrs Reed

Additional Teaching Support

Mrs Haynes

Additional Teaching Support

Our children usually start school, aged 4, into the Foundation Stage Classes. We believe that they should have a slow and steady start to school so that they can become confident in their surroundings and their teachers, feel safe and supported by the routines and valued as individuals to learn and grow in every way. The children enjoy their learning which follows the guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum. We offer the children a wide range of stimulating and enriched experiences, both indoors and outdoors, so they can develop their skills in an interesting context.

Thank you for all the home learning handed in yesterday. It was carefully completed, with spelling days of the week being particularly popular. It is really useful for the children to become proficient at spelling the days of the week, and writing them neatly and quite quickly. They will be writing the date frequently at school and to be able to do so correctly and independently will really help them.

We have asked for a photo of the children as babies to be brought into school, which is to help with understanding about the past and how changes occur over time. We’ll return all the photos later in the term.

Red and Blue class stayed for lunch today for the first time. We were very proud of the way the children helped themselves to the cutlery, chose their dessert and found a place to sit with their friends.

The children ate very well and enjoyed a play outside with Year 1 and 2.

Please fill out the lunchtime choice form with your child and return it by Friday to your class teacher.

If you are supplying your child with a packed lunch, please remember we are a nut free school.

Well done to all the children this week, they have coped very well with transition to their new school. The Early Years Team have enjoyed getting to know the children a little bit better and we’re looking forward to next week.

The hours next week are:

Monday 8:50 – 12:00

Tuesday 8:50 – 12:00

Wednesday 8:50 – 1:15

Thursday 8:50 – 1:15

Friday 8:50 – 3:15

The doors and gate will shut as near to 9:00 as possible. If you arrive after 9:00, you will need to sign in at Reception.

Please don’t worry about school dinners, it’s one of the favourite parts of the school day. The Early Years Team will be on hand for the first few weeks. If your child doesn’t eat very much, we will let you know so that you can give them a substantial snack after school. If your child has any food allergies, we would like to meet with you, so that we can be certain what the children have is appropriate. Please remember that you can alternate between packed lunches and school dinners.

Dear Parents,
It was such an amazing surprise to receive very generous and kind ‘Thank you’ cards yesterday. Just thinking of all the lovely Reception children brings a smile on my face!
I had a great time teaching each one of them as they are all so lovely and special.

They have been aiming a quoit at a bottle, weaving material around bike wheels, exploring the garage, learning to order large Numicon and counting the holes with balls. The definite favourite has been exploring our new water wall, thinking where to pour, predicting what will happen, and problem solving to stop the ground being flooded.